BizTalk System.EnterpriseServices.TransactionProxyException

Are you tired of reading article after article on this error telling you to check the firewall settings? Tired of vague statements about checking network settings? Directions to use some crazy tools to blah this and blah blah that? Well my friend this...

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Install AX Enterprise Portal on SharePoint 2013 Multi Server Farm

How I Installed Enterprise Portal on a SharePoint 2013 Multi Server  Farm Brief overview of SharePoint 2013 farm. 1 Application server on Windows 2012 R2 1 WFE server on Windows 2012 R2 1 Index server on Windows 2012 R2 1 SQL Server 2014 on Windows...

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Export CRM Users List Using PowerShell

How this came about:      I was asked by the Manager of the QA team to send her a list of who had access to the QA environment; after we performed a refresh from production. I'm fairly new to CRM and was looking for ways to do this. 1st)...

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CRM Audit Counts Report

During our first few deployment weeks, management wanted some metrics showing user activity. If you have auditing turned on CRM will track when Opportunities or Accounts are changed and will show who changed them. The actual change is not logged but you can at least so who made a change. Management...

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Azure Speed test using DiskSpd

The decision was made to utilize Azure as IaaS for a large portion of our AX project. We learned some quick lessons in IO speed using Azure right off the bat. I created this quick post to document some of the tools and steps we used to measure IO speed...

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CRM Organization Import Could not find stored procedure p_CreateAuditEntry

During our DEV server builds we came across a bug during an import of CRM Organizations. When we would try to import a refresh of production to DEV we received the following error in the Install log. Could not find stored procedure p_CreateAuditEntry After some testing we figured out that this error...

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CRM Refresh using PowerShell

We just started using CRM and wanted to get rid of the manual process of refreshing CRM from Production to QA\Dev for our developers. Our environments Developer Boxes We have 14 dev servers running on Windows 2012 R2. These boxes run SQL 2012 and CRM 2015. Dev Servers We also have 2 Dev Environments...

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